[Westwales] Windows 1: Linux 0

[David Goodwin]

Colin Sauze wrote :
> David Goodwin wrote:
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> >Hello!
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> >Right, my understanding of the whole 'motherboard raid' is that it's
> >normally actually software raid based - hence the need for drivers. Were
> >it hardware based, you'd have some BIOS like utility to create the RAID
> >device, and there would be no need for drivers.
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> >I suspect that if you setup a RAID array under Windows it may not be
> >compatible with a similar RAID 1 array under Linux (I could be wrong
> >here! I've only ever used hardware RAID when using both OSs).
> >
> >However, why can't you partition each SATA disk, and use those
> >partitions as the foundation for your RAID device?
> >  
> If you do this, can grub/lilo boot off it? This would require them to be 
> aware of software raid, especially in RAID 0 configurations. 

Yes...

> I've setup 
> a few raid systems and always had a small OS or /boot partition which 
> wasn't raided and then a big raid partition for all my data. This wastes 
> a small amount of space on the second drive and means you loose the 
> advantages of raid on that boot partition.

That's one way! I'm fairly sure you might have to use lilo if you have a
RAID 1 '/boot', as Grub can't/couldn't cope with it.

David.

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David Goodwin 

[ david at codepoets dot co dot uk ]
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